The grand Rs 14,000-crore Mumbai Coastal Road project poses a significant risk to the city's marine biodiversity. And last Thursday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) got a nod from the principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Nagpur, to translocate fragile corals across the Haji Ali-Worli shoreline. 

But as Shaunak Modi, team member of Marine Life of Mumbai and co-founder of Coastal Conservation Foundation, points out, as per the report, only 18 coral colonies will be translocated by the BMC. "This is a fraction of the total corals in the affected area. On a low enough tide, one would find 18 colonies in a matter of minutes," he adds. So what happens to the rest?